Benjamin Marra

Bruce Barnes is a schoolteacher having yet another miserable day. His students are a disrespectful nightmare, gleefully relishing the misery they put him through. But today is even worse than usual, and after a particularly grim run-in with a student, he heads to the break room to bum a smoke off another member of the faculty. After lighting up, he's...

When Ninkugel, a conniving, peasant farmworker, inadvertently causes an insect plague that destroys his town's crops, he leaves his village in a self-imposed exile to avert death. From there, he lies and cheats his way across the countryside in a quest for fortune and high-living. When he convinces the elders of another village that he is a champion demon slayer...